The World - News from Jan. 8, 1989

Soviet envoy Yuli M. Vorontsov, speaking one day after a second round of talks with Afghan rebels on the formation of a broad-based government in Kabul ended without agreement, warned that any more killings in the war would be on the conscience of the Western-backed Muslim rebels. Vorontsov, who held nearly five hours of talks with a rebel delegation in Pakistan, bemoaned their rejection of a cease-fire as proposed by the Soviet-backed Kabul regime. “We hope they will change their minds, otherwise all the dead people from now on will be shouldered by them, all the blood will be on them,” he said.